MINISTER-PRESIDENT HUBENER AND FUTURE INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIAN ZONE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 12, 1948
• Content Type: IR

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on of an
25X1 -endependeryt eastern zonal government, tv:inister=President Friedrich
Erhart HUbener of Saxony-Anhalt has expressed the opinion that such
25X1 a move will only be made after the establishment of a similar govern-
ment in the western zones. If Friedensburg should be appointed
minister.-president, the goal at. which he is now aiming, eastern
Germany will become a member nation of the Molotov bloc,,.
2:. At the present time, however, the candidate for the office of minister-
president who seems mostly likely to be selected In MAy i itz, now
25X1 iinister-- resident of Saxony. H bener nd Dr.
25X1 Wilhelm K lz of the LDP had been offer position
Marshal
Sokolovsk (apparently some months ago) and refused it.
25X1 t was the original intention of the Russia.r.s appoint a
uuux-geolT party member minister-President in order that the new govern-
ment should present a democratic front; ? it now a
appears that both the
minister-president and the minister of the interior will to SED members.
HelmutK.lz has been promised the Ministry of Justice. Wilhelm Bachertt
(CDU), Minister of Transportation in Thuringia, Leonhard Moog (LDP'
Minister of Finance in Thuringia and Hans G. Strasser (LDP), :t ni.-t.+`-
of Finance in Mecklenburg, are also endeavoring to obtain ministries in
the future government.
j9 Minister-President H }bener predicted that a fusion of the CDU and the
,LDP in the Eastern Zone will no-(-. occur, If Jakob Kaiser fal.*& to ap-
prove a CDU participating in an eastern zonal government, an indepen-
dent party maintaining very loose connections with Kaiser and the
western CDC: will to formed there. In view of existing apathy and
fear of the Russians, no popular resistance to this measure is
anticipated.
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